[object Object]@zzt@mas.to

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and you know what? almost all of the projects claiming LLMs benefited them are cookie cutter web and app crap in typescript or some other high level language

the only instances I’ve seen of kernel code in C being produced by an LLM have all been broken, plagarized slop. like shit, look at the utter failure of a C compiler that’s… abandoned now. look at the utter failure of a web browser that’s… also abandoned. the slop “reimplementation” of Macintosh System 7 that doesn’t work. the Meshtastic OS from the guy who tried to steal the Meshtastic copyright that… also doesn’t work

so uh where does this assertion that these things are any good at C come from? every time this has been tried it failed badly.

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[object Object]@zzt@mas.to

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oh wow, the machine can plagiarize servo into a web browser that’s broken and strictly worse than servo!

oh wow, the machine can plagiarize GCC and a bunch of undergrad compiler projects into… a C compiler so unoptimized and broken it probably set a record for how slow its output ran, which also didn’t run any of the normal sanity checks on its input

so what exactly are the LLMs running on the Linux kernel going to plagiarize from?

we know the answer of course, there’s not a lot of kernels they can pull from

[object Object]@zzt@mas.to

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oh hey, some of you have seen this before but look at torvalds’ prior work before shoving LLMs forcefully into the workflow of the kernel:

infosec.exchange/@atax1a/11586

it’s a fucking Python data visualizer tool that you or I could have written in a day, but torvalds decided Python wasn’t a worthy language for him to learn so he used an LLM instead

and this wasn’t his first time fucking with the things, but this was his last project before he decided to go all-in

somehow an LLM doing a shit Python data visualization tool for one of his hobbies convinced him that LLMs must be really good at the type of low-level C the kernel is written in

that’s all the evidence this mid little fucker needed to assert it as fact

Lykso@lykso@tiny.tilde.website

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@TheOneDoc @zzt People keep liking this post, which made me curious. TIL he receives a salary of $1.5 million from the Linux Foundation. Also saw some websites estimating his net worth to be somewhere between $50 million and $150 million. I don't know on what basis they made those estimates, but yeah, definitely seems like he ought to have enough now for a comfortable life without working another day if he wanted to.